Tag Archives: Islamic Studies

Called upon God Almighty, the Network of Virtual Universities of the Islamic World will provide an international conference on jurisprudence, law, and religious research with the effective support of...

The Shiʿi Studies Group at the University of Chicago will host its 2020 annual symposium on the theme of walāya—the call of devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt that is at the core of...

The notion ‘local’ is more complex than earlier sharp distinctions between, for instance, the concept of ‘great’ and ‘little’ (or ‘folk’) traditions as a means of describing large-scale civilizations such as Islam...

International Conference on Historicity and Islamicity: Perceptions of Early Islamic History in Contemporary Muslim Thought will be held at the Center for Islamic Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am...

The aim of the International Round-Table Conference “the Qur’an in its Milieu of Possibilities of the Historical Reconstruction of the Qur’anic Revelation” in 2019 is to establish a vivid international discourse as well as to create an...

Monotheism constitutes one of the central doctrines of Islam. The notion is again and again voiced in the Qurʾān, thus for example in sūra 112 (entitled “Sincere Religion”) which, in the translation of...

The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) invites scholars, including advanced doctoral students, to submit paper proposals for its 2020 spring meeting, which will be....

Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in...

The essays within this volume, all written by leading scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and...

This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe...